Donald Trump’s new AI contradicts him... and gets censored

Alongside the code of conduct for governing AI development, Donald Trump introduced the America.gov platform. This platform is designed to make administrative procedures easier for Americans. Its distinguishing feature: it includes a chatbot that answers users’ questions.Thus, a visitor can ask it how to renew their passport or how to sign up for Medicare, and the chatbot is expected to provide the correct guidance. The White House also notes that the platform makes it possible to “receive accurate answers”. But the chatbot’s answers do not always appear to be consistent with Donald Trump’s statements.

The U.S. government chatbot contradicts some of Donald Trump’s statements

A journalist from The Guardian, a British media outlet highly critical of Donald Trump, took pleasure in comparing the AI platform America.gov’s answers with some of the president’s statements. Thus, Donald Trump claims that the 2020 U.S. election was rigged and that he was the true winner; the U.S. government’s artificial intelligence, for its part, says that Joe Biden did indeed win the election.

More delicate still, the chatbot on the government platform stated that Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files. Another example: Donald Trump recently claimed that Americans were “twice as wealthy as they were not long ago”, a claim that the U.S. government’s AI refuted. Donald Trump would undoubtedly dismiss the AI’s answers on this government platform as “fake news”.

The chatbot no longer responds to political questions

Donald Trump’s teams seem to have been alerted to the situation and have taken steps to put an end to it. From now on, the AI on this new government platform says it does not respond to political or societal questions. The chatbot is now limited to administrative requests.

It is worth noting that the AI on this government platform relies in particular on Gemini (Google) and Grok (xAI – Elon Musk). Google explained that it was «proud to be a technology partner for this initiative », while « supporting the administration’s vision for digital modernization ». It should be noted that Google and the US government have drawn closer over the past few months, notably through a controversial agreement with the US military.

Grok, for its part, is known for providing answers that align more closely with the right wing of the political spectrum, but this does not appear to be the case on the US government’s administrative platform. Unless its role on it is at another level. In any case, the chatbot on the America.gov platform no longer responds to political questions.

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Source:The Guardian